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Topic: Read/Write bytes in Maxima
Replies: 3   Last Post: Apr 23, 2012 6:31 PM

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Richard Fateman

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Re: Read/Write bytes in Maxima
Posted: Apr 23, 2012 10:49 AM
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On 4/23/2012 6:32 AM, Mate wrote:
> Is there a command in Maxima to read/write a sequence (list) of bytes
> from/in a binary file?
> Something like writebytes(filename, offset, list_of_bytes).
> In the help system I have seen only operations related to text files
> (line oriented).
>
> Thank you,
> Mate

You can use common lisp input and output, perhaps.

Since Maxima doesn't really have a structure for a "list of bytes" it's
not clear how/why you would use this. (Of course one could come up
with some encoding, but is this for small numbers? characters? pieces of
floating-point numbers??)

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